Bro has been saying this for the past 5 years. He's lost his confidence and has muddied his artistic vision with the opinions of fans. Nigga has been switching personas every week. After Pink Tape, this nigga immediately starts cosplaying Thug and promoting a Barter 16 tape which never even drops. He's lost his identity as an artist and the reality of hitting the age of 30 is consuming him. Bro is having a quarter-life crisis. As an OG Uzi fan, this is hard to see unfold

UPDATE:

Uzi claims he will retire with LUV is Rage 3

UPDATE (11/22):

Uzi claims that he will be returning to his "old style" again with his upcoming album...

im mad he wasted my time anticipating a rich gang tape thats hes not dropping

the sad thing is most rappers best albums made after 30

bro scared of an expiration date he doesn’t have yet

Hold up, is this a new post and not some s*** from 3 years ago? yeah he’s beyond lost

Saw this coming when he was posting s*** like this

Then lied about his age

Barter 16k was never going to drop

Hold up s***dog, weren’t you the same one who just called me a hater for criticizing modern Uzi/the pink tape earlier today? you did me dirty. Cause you know damn well I had a reason to tell Uzi to keep his s***, he been in a terrible identity crisis on this “old Uzi 2017 coming back” since literally 2019

How I tell him to keep LIR3, then you call me a hater, then you make this thread describing the reason I want him to keep another sequel

Yeah that was before I seen this post and I had to chime in. Uzi is definitely lost right now. He don't know who he is anymore

Bro I respect that then. All I ask is next time you see me being negative on an artist and you wanna dismiss it as hate, try to see where I’m coming from because this is the exact reason I don’t want LIR3 or anything from Uzi.

In a genius Shakespearean level of irony, he made himself washed by his own obsession with staying young. He hyperfocused on this “old Uzi” thing by the time he was 25, so now when he’s 30 it’s like he might as well be 50

this legit hurts to witness man.

like i can't even think of no jokes or anything to lighten this s*** up.

This is just f***ing sad.

he's been on since like 2015 and has had more mid years (2018-2023) than good years (2016-2017)

was never that great of an artist and his image always implied an artistic capability that he never really had...I always knew the hype was blown out of proportion when the song that sounds like SpongeBob went big

That’s not what happened his schizophrenia got bad enough that he probably doesn’t know what to really do anymore

He’s schizophrenic?

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I thought he was joking but when he dedicated an entire song on his album to his medication I changed my mind

Bro, realistically this dude probably googled schizophrenia medication and then made a song about it to seem quirky.

There’s not any part of my being that believes Uzi got a schizo diagnosis he just wanted y’all to think he was Donny darko lol

What happened is, he blew up in 2016-17 because he figured out a perfect way to pander to that moment and the youth in that moment

He was already lowkey old at this point so when he became a hit with people years younger than him, it sent him into a crisis where he had to try to make himself younger than he actually was and overcompensate for feeling older than his fans (and peers)

And this led to many insane actions like claiming to be schizophrenic, changing pronouns to claim to be part of LGBT to connect with the youth, and constantly saying this stuff about bringing “old Uzi” back because he doesn’t know what his fans want because he’s old

this s*** lame. he was better than carti. i didn't even like that nigga verse on of course we ghetto flowers!

I can’t wait til the next Carti era when y’all realize Carti is a hack like Uzi tbh calling it right now. Y’all gonna realize it was smoke and mirrors and aesthetic just like Uzi was

nigga a blood now. we losing recipes.

Both him and yatchy went too hard on making youth such a big part of their aesthetic. That s*** was bound to have problems once father time start getting that ass. Yatchy trying to claw his way out of that with pink floyd and alchemist beats. Wonder what uzi gonna do

See you say that, but most of his snippets/leaks/new s*** been cool. It at least feels like he's attempting to evolve, unlike Uzi. Carti def in a make or break situation rn but let's not act like he not clear of literally any other nigga in his class.

I feel you I’m not saying he’s reached Uzi’s level just yet. But I’m just making a prediction. I think carti’s WLR appeal is very similar to the appeal Uzi had and I think whether it’s the next album or the one after that, he’s going to make a project that is so superficial and fake that people see through his pandering

I still think Eternal Atake is a genuinely great album. he never should have let people convince him it wasn't